Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 03:08:45PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > in /usr/share/vim/vim56/filetype.vim i found the line > > au BufNewFile,BufRead > > snd.\d\+,.letter,.letter.\d\+,.followup,.article,.article.\d\+,pico.\d\+,mutt-*-\d\+,ae\d\+.txt > > set ft=mail > > > > the part that works for new mutt email is > > > > mutt-*-\d\+ > > > > but we need to add a pattern to match filenames like > > > > /tmp/muttlEoKra > > /tmp/muttDSveKd > > > > what's the syntax for these vim patterns? (-*- looks like glob, > > but then we have \d for digit (i presume) and \+ for... well, i > > don't know.) > > Looks like a bastard child of regexes and shell globs. I suspect that you > could probably match both styles of mutt filename in a single expression with > something along the lines of > > mutt-\?*-\?\d\+ > > but it would probably be easier to just add a new pattern of > > mutt\d\+
i found a better way, based on other tips i got from debian-user folk: # ~/.muttrc set editor="vim -c 'set ft=mail tw=64'" works every time. -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dontUthink.com/